Individual Details

The Jay Houston Price family left Overton County, Tennessee on April 6, 1896 in a covered wagon with several other families headed west to find a new home. this was a great adventure for them all especially the children. A day by day account was kept at first, but it must have become less important as the days dragged on.

Their first river to be crossed was the Tennessee River and they wen across on a ferry. They arrived in Kentucky near Louisville on their third day.

They stopped and had lunch with relatives of Anderson Buck who was traveling with them. they crossed the Ohio River on a ferry into the state of Mississippi and then crossed the Mississippi River into the state of Missouri.

At times they could not travel due to pouring rain; then they could only stay in and under the wagon and eat what they had, being unable to build a campfire for cooking.

After traveling another five days, they spend the night with Jasper Nelson, a relative of Martha (Howard) Price. Anderson Buck stayed here while the rest of the wagon train continued on.

They arrived in Arkansas near Marshall, crossing the Stone Mountains. They stayed at Carroll Ridges, a relative of Jay Houston Price, for about a month helping them harvest their crop and selling their farm equipment in order to go to Indian Territory with the wagon train.

It says that Uncle Carroll Ridges and family stopped at Stonewall, Indian Territory and we kept traveling on to Burneyville, Indian Territory. Here they stopped and picked cotton for the first time in their lives. The farmer brought sacks for them to use to pick cotton, this made the children mad as they thought you needed baskets to pick cotton. They had arrived at Burneyville on the 15 of August and stayed until October 2, then continuing their journey and arriving at Bonita, Montague County, Texas on October 5th, 1896.

We stayed the first night at Uncle John Howard's, about one mile from Bonita.

Uncle George Howard was the first to go to Texas. He was a Peace Officer of Montague County. Uncle Anse and uncle Josh settled at Bonita; where Anse was a merchant and stockman and was later ordained minister of the Church of Christ. Josh was a ginner and banker until just a few years before his death. He died at the home of his son A.P. Howard in 1838 and was buried in fAirview Cemetery. The rest of the Howard brothers moved on west. Uncle Buck was the first to leave and located near Crosbyton, Crosby Co., Texas/

I have related the trip and the persons and places along the way as a help to others who might fit these pieces together. It has and continues to be a puzzle to find the Howards before they came to Tennessee.

Jay Houston Price farmed and was a Tax Assessor in Montague County and seemed to move back and forth across the Red River into Oklahoma several times over the years. After Martha died leaving a small son, Verlin, he stayed with daughters until Verlin a old enough for them to live alone again.
After Jay became to ill to live alone, he went to live with his daughter, Bertha, in Collin County where he lived his last years.

He is buried in Elmgrove Cemetery at Westminster, Collin County, Texas

Birth	15 Oct 1860	Roane County, Tennessee, USA
Death	22 Nov 1931	Westminster, Collin County, Texas, USA

Spouse	Martha Tennessee HOWARD (1864 - 1912)
Child	Bertha Ida Mae PRICE (1885 - 1954)